Precondition check failed

[prologic]

Is this currently working? I'm seeing errors like:

2024-03-01 22:42:38,899 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed.
2024-03-01 22:42:38,900 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (1/3)...

[meeb]

That's an error directly from yt-dlp talking to YouTube and not really anything to do with tubesync. Make sure you're running the latest release, if you are I'd suggest trying some yt-dlp commands directly to debug it.

[prologic]

Thanks!

[jan-oratowski]

I have the same problem (tried both the latest and v0.13.4 tags).

I understand this is caused by this issue: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9316

It was solved and the new yt-dlp was released on the 28th, while the docker image is from the 27th.

I understand that updating yt-dlp to the newest version would fix the issue, am I correct?

Is it possible to update the yt-dlp inside the container, or should I just wait for the new docker image?

As a side note - would it be possible to create a container startup task that would execute something like "yt-dlp --update", so yt-dlp is always up to date, even if a new image was not released yet?

[meeb]

yt-dlp is currently up to date in the container, the latest official release is 2023.12.30 which is what is currently bundled into tubesync. The issue you've linked has a fix in nightlies and not in the current official release. Once it's in an official release I'll update tubesync so yes waiting for a container update would be the most sensible option.

I generally don't to do something like yt-dlp --update on start in the container as this makes the container mutable and allows for different people to be running different versions of yt-dlp.

[jan-oratowski]

Thanks for the explanation.

Oh, and by the way thanks for the nice project and the time you're spending developing it.

[ntbritton]

Is there a way to update to the nightly build to test the update while we wait for it to be added to the stable channel?

[meeb]

Well, you can drop into the container and run whatever update commands you like with:

$ docker exec -ti tubesync bash
$ yt-dlp --update ... blah ...

You'll probably need to manually specify the dev / nightly build to get that to work though. Also that will be reset once the latest container is released.

[ntbritton]

I had tried that, and i tried with python3 pip commands as well, no luck. I thought you may have a better idea of the command needed.

root@d963562b4185:/app# yt-dlp --update-to bashonly/yt-dlp@bump WARNING: You are switching to an unofficial executable from bashonly/yt-dlp. Run at your own risk Current version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Requested version: bashonly/yt-dlp@bump build 2024.02.28.155832 ERROR: You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update

[meeb]

You probably need to use pipenv then, apt update && apt install pipenv, then pipenv install setuptools, then install yt-dlp ... something ...

Pretty sure you can use pipenv install git+path-to-fork-on-github and it'll work, although I've not tested it myself.

[ntbritton]

Thanks @meeb, I will work with that in the morning and see if i can get it to work.

[meeb]

Np. Oh and make sure you execute the pipenv commands in the /app directory.

[ntbritton]

I was able to do it like this:

root@d963562b4185:/app# pipenv shell Creating a virtualenv for this project... Pipfile: /app/Pipfile Using /usr/bin/python3 (3.11.2) to create virtualenv... ⠏ Creating virtual environment...created virtual environment CPython3.11.2.final.0-64 in 515ms creator CPython3Posix(dest=/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q, clear=False, no_vcs_ignore=False, global=False) seeder FromAppData(download=False, pip=bundle, setuptools=bundle, wheel=bundle, via=copy, app_data_dir=/root/.local/share/virtualenv) added seed packages: pip==23.0.1, setuptools==66.1.1, wheel==0.38.4 activators BashActivator,CShellActivator,FishActivator,NushellActivator,PowerShellActivator,PythonActivator

✔ Successfully created virtual environment! Virtualenv location: /root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q Creating a Pipfile for this project... Launching subshell in virtual environment... root@d963562b4185:/app# . /root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/bin/activate (app) root@d963562b4185:/app# yt-dlp --version 2023.12.30 (app) root@d963562b4185:/app# python3 -m pip install -U --pre yt-dlp nightly Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple Collecting yt-dlp nightly Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/yt-dlp/yt_dlp-2024.3.7.232716.dev0-py3-none-any.whl (3.1 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.1/3.1 MB 2.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00

Installing collected packages: brotli, websockets, urllib3, pycryptodomex, mutagen, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests, yt-dlp

Successfully installed brotli-1.1.0 certifi-2024.2.2 charset-normalizer-3.3.2 idna-3.6 mutagen-1.47.0 pycryptodomex-3.20.0 requests-2.31.0 urllib3-2.2.1 websockets-12.0 yt-dlp-2024.3.7.232716.dev0

(app) root@d963562b4185:/usr/local/bin# yt-dlp --version 2023.12.30

I had to exit and re-enter to see that the version was different

(app) root@d963562b4185:/app# yt-dlp --version 2024.03.07.232716

[meeb]

Thanks for the detailed steps! Hopefully this will be fixed in the main release soon but this is useful for anyone else wanting to run nightlies in the interim.

[ntbritton]

I am seeing that i still see the same problem with the nightly version of yt-dlp, that others saw is fixed. But it looks like they are also using a cookies parm. Any way i can see what command is being executed? Would like to see if it matches to the yt-dlp issuie above or if its something different, that should be raised.

Error is still see:

2024-03-10 12:31:21,482 [tubesync/INFO] Saved 83949 bytes of metadata for: robocarpoli / 4627f57a-6bdd-484b-94ea-2bfdd2bf70cb 2024-03-10 12:31:23,407 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:23,407 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (1/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:23,571 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:23,571 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (2/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:23,616 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:23,616 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (3/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:23,726 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:23,728 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] Unable to download API page: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: Bad Request>); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U 2024-03-10 12:31:25,240 [tubesync/INFO] Scheduling task to download thumbnail for: Make friends | Robocar Poli Clips from: https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/-e5q1VpcUwk/maxresdefault.webp 2024-03-10 12:31:25,262 [tubesync/INFO] Saved 351797 bytes of metadata for: robocarpoli / 34a4ad2c-fe9c-485c-b5b4-ae2858658d8a 2024-03-10 12:31:28,942 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:28,943 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (1/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:29,087 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:29,088 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (2/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:29,127 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:29,127 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request. Retrying (3/3)... 2024-03-10 12:31:29,494 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] YouTube said: ERROR - Precondition check failed. 2024-03-10 12:31:29,495 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube] Unable to download API page: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: Bad Request>); ple

[meeb]

tubesync doesn't execute yt-dlp with CLI args, it uses the internal Python API. There's a bunch of args used, some here:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/blob/main/tubesync/sync/youtube.py#L140

and the defaults here:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/blob/main/tubesync/tubesync/settings.py#L158

Given this seems to be an issue yt-dlp are working on I'm not going to spend much time on this myself and just pull in whatever fix the upstream devs release.

[meeb]

Ah, there was a yt-dlp release a few hours ago. I'll pull that in shortly.

[ntbritton]

tubesync doesn't execute yt-dlp with CLI args, it uses the internal Python API. There's a bunch of args used, some here:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/blob/main/tubesync/sync/youtube.py#L140

and the defaults here:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/blob/main/tubesync/tubesync/settings.py#L158

Thanks @meeb! I think thats what i needed to provide the yt-dlp devs what they would need.

I have added your comments on: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9316

and asked them to let me know how i can help/test/validate

[meeb]

Probably not that useful for the upstream devs really, given tubesync is pretty much just a UI wrapper around yt-dlp.

[meeb]

The latest build, v0.13.5, has yt-dlp v2024.03.10 in it. Update and try that.

[ntbritton]

Thanks! I updated, and i am not seeing the errors posting yet.

[meeb]

This should have been resolved a while go so I'll close the issue for now.